Patents by Inventor William Shea

William Shea has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12558006
    Abstract: Concentrating devices, systems, and methods include those for separating fluids to be sensed (e.g., analytes, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and/or other chemical substances) from other fluid (e.g., a carrier gas, air, etc.) of a fluid mixture received from a target area of a subject's anatomy (e.g., a subject's skin, a wound on a subject, etc.). In some cases, the concentration system may include a housing and a rotor positioned in a compartment of the housing. The housing may receive a fluid mixture in the compartment and rotation of the rotor relative to the housing may separate fluid to be sensed in the fluid mixture from other fluid of the fluid mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Hatch, Mitchell Levinson, Ardeshir Bayat, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20250303414
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods include a system for analyzing reactant arrays. The system may include a cartridge including a reactant array and a device for analyzing the reactant array when the cartridge is received by or in the device. The cartridge may include a compartment for receiving a specimen that is in fluid communication with the reactant array and an opening configured to receive a sample portion of the specimen. The system may include the specimen having the sample portion configured to be positioned in the compartment and a non-sample portion extending out of the compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventor: William Shea
  • Publication number: 20250303419
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods include a reactant array. The reactant array may include a sintered material and a reactant material applied to the sintered material. The reactant material may be configured to change one or more properties in response to exposure to one or more analytes. The reactant array may be used to identify an analyte of a fluid to which the reactant material is exposed based on a change in one or more properties of the reactant material in response to exposure to the fluid. The reactant array may be applied to a multi-dimensional object and passively and/or actively exposed to the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventor: William Shea
  • Publication number: 20250297962
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods include a system comprising a substrate having a transparent portion, one or more reactants on a first surface of the transparent portion of the substrate, a light source, and a light collector. The light source may be configured to illuminate the one or more reactants through the transparent portion of the substrate and the light collector may be configured to collect light from the one or more reactants. The light from the one or more reactants may be collected from the reactants without the light from the reactants traveling through the substrate and/or may be collected from the reactants after the light from the reactants has passed through the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Richard Wyeth, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20250297893
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods include a system for analyzing a target area. The system may include an opaque member having one or more slits configured to be transverse to a target area, one or more lenses configured to receive light from the target area, and an image sensor configured to receive the light from the target area that has passed through the one or more slits and the one or more lenses. A controller may be in communication with the image sensor to process and/or monitor sensed light. The system may include an optical system that includes the opaque member and the one or more lenses, which may have a first set of lenses and a second set of lenses. The target area may include a substrate supporting one or more reactants. The system may be a Fourier transform hyperspectral imaging fluid analysis system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Richard Wyeth, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20250296079
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods include a system for analyzing reactant arrays (e.g., reactant arrays of colorimetric sensor arrays). The system may include a cartridge including a reactant array and a device for analyzing the reactant array when the cartridge is received by or in the device. The cartridge may include input port, an output port, and a component between the input port and the output port. The device may be configured to engage the pump component to pump fluid through a pathway in fluid communication with the input port, the output port, and the reactant array. The reactant array may include one or more reactants (e.g., analyte sensitive material).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventor: William Shea
  • Publication number: 20250297943
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods include a system comprising a light source directed at a surface, a spectrometer configured to measure, over time, levels of light collected from the surface, a controller in communication with the spectrometer. The controller may be configured to identify a component of fluid in contact with the surface based on the levels of the wavelengths of light collected from the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Wyeth, Yan Zhou, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20230243860
    Abstract: Concentrating devices, systems, and methods include those for separating fluids to be sensed (e.g., analytes, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and/or other chemical substances) from other fluid (e.g., a carrier gas, air, etc.) of a fluid mixture received from a target area of a subject's anatomy (e.g., a subject's skin, a wound on a subject, etc.). In some cases, the concentration system may include a housing and a rotor positioned in a compartment of the housing. The housing may receive a fluid mixture in the compartment and rotation of the rotor relative to the housing may separate fluid to be sensed in the fluid mixture from other fluid of the fluid mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Hatch, Mitchell Levinson, Ardeshir Bayat, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20230233113
    Abstract: Detection devices, systems, and methods include those for detecting analytes (e.g., volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and/or other chemical substances) from a target area of a subject's anatomy (e.g., a subject's skin, a wound on a subject, etc.). In some cases, a detector may have a detecting component that includes an analyte sensitive material applied to a substrate. The detector may be used with a pump. The detector may include a hydrophobic, gas permeable material configured to limit liquid reaching the analyte sensitive material, while allowing analytes in gaseous fluid to reach the analyte sensitive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventors: Mitchell Levinson, Ardeshir Bayat, Richard Hatch, Scott West, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20230233193
    Abstract: Collection devices, systems, and methods include those for collecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and/or other chemical substances from a target area of a subject’s anatomy (e.g., a subject’s skin, a wound on a subject, etc.). In some cases, the collector may have a collection component including an adsorbent material. The collector may be used with a pump. The pump may be configured to draw a fluid flow containing one or more chemical substances from a target area on a subject’s anatomy through the collection component. The collection component may be configured to collect at least some of the chemical substances from the fluid flow as the flow passes through the collection component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: SENSILL, INC.
    Inventors: Mitchell Levinson, Ardeshir Bayat, Richard Hatch, Scott West, William Shea
  • Patent number: 9706913
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a wavefront sensor is combined with a slit lamp eye examination device so that real time aberration values of an eye being examined can be viewed during a slit lamp eye examination session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: CLARITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, William Shea, Barry Linder
  • Patent number: 9585553
    Abstract: A wavefront sensor includes a light source configured to illuminate a subject eye, a detector, a first beam deflecting element configured to intercept a wavefront beam returned from a subject eye when the subject eye is illuminated by the light source and configured to direct a portion of the wavefront from the subject eye through an aperture toward the detector and a controller, coupled to the light source and the beam deflecting element, configured to control the beam deflecting element to deflect and project different portions of an annular ring portion of the wavefront from the subject eye through the aperture and further configured to pulse the light source at a firing rate to sample selected portions of the annular ring at the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: CLARITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Bradford Chew, William Shea
  • Patent number: 9332899
    Abstract: One embodiment is a method for finding, calculating and electronically marking a reference axis for astigmatism correction/neutralization of a patient eye during a refractive surgery. The reference axis for astigmatism correction/neutralization can be determined intra-operatively based on one or more eye property measurements together with simultaneous recording a live eye image. The determined reference axis of astigmatism correction/neutralization can be updated and registered with one or more land mark(s) of the recorded eye image(s); and overlaid onto a live image of the eye. Another embodiment is a method of calculating and displaying in real time compensated refractive errors of the eye under operation with refractive components due to temporary surgically induced factors removed and refractive components due to surgeon-induced factors added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: CLARITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: William Shea, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 9326677
    Abstract: Example embodiments of a large dynamic range sequential wavefront sensor for vision correction or assessment procedures are disclosed. An example embodiment includes first and second optically coupled 4F relays and a variable focus lens disposed substantially at the image plane of the first 4F relay and the object plane of the second 4F relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: CLARITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20160038024
    Abstract: A wavefront sensor includes a light source configured to illuminate a subject eye, a detector, a first beam deflecting element configured to intercept a wavefront beam returned from a subject eye when the subject eye is illuminated by the light source and configured to direct a portion of the wavefront from the subject eye through an aperture toward the detector and a controller, coupled to the light source and the beam deflecting element, configured to control the beam deflecting element to deflect and project different portions of an annular ring portion of the wavefront from the subject eye through the aperture and further configured to pulse the light source at a firing rate to sample selected portions of the annular ring at the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: CLARITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: YAN ZHOU, BRADFORD CHEW, WILLIAM SHEA
  • Publication number: 20150320310
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a wavefront sensor is combined with a slit lamp eye examination device so that real time aberration values of an eye being examined can be viewed during a slit lamp eye examination session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: YAN ZHOU, WILLIAM SHEA, BARRY LINDER
  • Patent number: 9179836
    Abstract: One embodiment disclosed is a compact wavefront sensor module to be attached to or integrated with an ophthalmic instrument for eye examination and/or vision correction procedures. The front lens for relaying the wavefront from the eye to a wavefront sampling plane is positioned at the optical input port of the wavefront sensor module. The front lens is shared by the wavefront sensor and the ophthalmic instrument, and the wavefront sensor module can be made very compact while still being able to cover a large eye wavefront measurement diopter range. Another embodiment disclosed is an ophthalmic device for measuring properties of a subject eye including an ophthalmic instrument integrated with the wavefront sensor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: CLARITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, William Shea
  • Publication number: 20150289760
    Abstract: Example embodiments of a large dynamic range sequential wavefront sensor for vision correction or assessment procedures are disclosed. An example embodiment includes first and second optically coupled 4F relays and a variable focus lens disposed substantially at the image plane of the first 4F relay and the object plane of the second 4F relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, William Shea
  • Patent number: 9119561
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a wavefront sensor is combined with a slit lamp eye examination device so that real time aberration values of an eye being examined can be viewed during a slit lamp eye examination session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: CLARITY MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, William Shea, Barry Linder
  • Patent number: D775356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Clarity Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Shelly Reed, William Shea